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This is a guest post by Jonathan Stumpf of the Pacific Northwest Pollution Prevention Resource Center. PPRC provides unbiased information and collaborates with government, businesses, and non-governmental organizations to reduce pollution via prevention. As part of their Rapid Response project, PPRC offers businesses and agencies up to five hours of free research into the environmental […]
Editors note: The Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families coalition is grateful to Molly Jones Gray, who has done so much to support our work. Molly participated in a study investigating toxic chemicals in pregnant women, testified before Congress about her experiences, and shared her story with us. Molly reminds us that this campaign is about people […]
A new study was released today giving new meaning to the phrase “toxic assets.” “On The Money: BPA on Dollar Bills and Receipts” researched by the nonprofit groups Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families and the Washington Toxics Coalition, set out to investigate the extent to which thermal receipt paper containing bisphenol A (BPA) has permeated the […]
Produced in quantities of about six billion pounds each year worldwide, BPA is one of the most widely used chemicals of all time. Present in 93% of all Americans, scientists studying BPA have hypothesized the major route of human exposure is through food, as BPA is used as a liner in nearly all canned food […]
A new study was released giving new meaning to the phrase “toxic assets.” “On The Money: BPA on Dollar Bills and Receipts” set out to investigate the extent to which thermal receipt paper containing bisphenol A (BPA) has permeated the market, and whether this hormone-disrupting chemical is escaping onto the money that lies close to […]
"Our findings demonstrate that BPA cannot be avoided, even by the most conscious consumer," said Erika Schreder, Staff Scientist at the Washington Toxics Coalition and lead author of the report.
BPA on thermal paper isn’t chemically bound in any way. It does not stay on the paper, but rather easily transfers to our skin and other items that it rubs against.
Originally published November 30, 2010 by Maria’s Farm Country Kitchen. By guest blogger Andy Igrejas, national campaign director of the Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families coalition These days, more of us are thinking about what lurks in the manufactured products in our lives. From baby bottles made with bisphenol-A (BPA) to carpets containing formaldehyde, dangerous chemicals […]
Listen to the teleconference: Toxic Chemicals and Reproductive Health: What’s the Relationship? https://saferchemicals.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/mp3/repro-health-teleconference-18nov10.mp3 Infertility. Early puberty. Decreased sperm counts. Breast and prostate cancers. These are just a few of the reproductive health problems that are increasing in the United States today. More and more evidence implicates that some of these increases are linked to our […]
73% of Republicans and 99% of Democrats favored stronger protection of children's health and the environment from dangerous chemicals, with equal support from governors of each party.